How to use Chinese-English dictionary?Online Dictionary Pinyin Index Strokes Stroke Count Bushou (Radicals) Bushou Index Recommended Dictionary1. Online Dictionary Let's start with an online Chinese-English dictionary. Click here to start the Sunrain online dictionary in a new window. The Sunrain dictionary has both English-Chinese (英汉 ) and Chinese-English (汉英) lookup. Use of the English-Chinese dictionary is straight forward. Click on 英汉词典 (English-Chinese dictionary), and input English. There are two output options: GB Text and Big 5 Text. These are standards for displaying Chinese on the computer. GB Text is used for Simplified Chinese (the standard in mainland China) and Big 5 Text is for traditional Chinese (the standard in Taiwan). The Sunrain's Big 5 Text output sometimes does not work, but you can ignore this problem. Click on Go! and you are done! For Chinese-English dictionary (汉 英词典), there are three input options: For Pinyin input, you may type in a word or a phrase. The Pinyin tunes will be ignored. Most users outside of China don't have a Chinese operating system on our computers. Typing a Chinese word is out of question. You may get around this problem by cut-and-paste. This is fine if you are reading online. It will be a big problem if you are reading a book or a newspaper. Of course you can still cut and paste, but don't call me if your computer does not respond. Bushou index will allow you search for words based on the structure of a Chinese character. We shall introduce Bushou index later.
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